If you’d have told me two years ago that a virus would wreak havoc globally to the point it would cause most of the world to shut down for months on end, I’d have thought you’d have gone mad and were deserving of spending months of your own time in a hospital with the cast of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. There is absolutely no way I’d have believed you. Not. At. All.

But here we are, late July 2021 still slightly in grips of this ordeal, on the precipice of seeing a horizon of freedom we can’t wait…

Scientists have been messing with our food for decades as they’ve looked to modify, alter and create new creations all the time. Think of margarine as a notable example. Or high fructose corn syrup as another. I’m not a fan of either of these inventions, but they’re presence within our way of life cannot be ignored. High fructose corn syrup is seriously in everything. We’ve essentially broken down the basic components of corn and made it into a completely different product. Yeah science!

However, in doing so, we’ve opened ourselves up to a Matrix style red pill versus blue pill…

I must confess, and I believe I’m not alone in thinking this, but one of the few silver linings (there haven’t been many) of this past year has been how it has affected our view of work. For those who didn’t lose their jobs, working from home brought with it a new life experience. Less travel and commutes. More time with family and children. And a renewed sense of having precious moments with oneself.

My brother-in-law swears he hopes to never return to office work. …

In 2014, promising young journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates penned one of the most important and landmark columns for The Atlantic. He titled it, The Case For Reparations. It was his attempt at bringing to the foreground the racial atrocities his country, the United States, had committed against it’s own black citizenry. His subtitle reads as follows:

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

Seven years later, Coates’s article still perfectly articulates the…

With the weather being as hot as it has been these past few days here in BC, you’d be remiss to not think it were mid July or mid August and not late Junuary as this month so often feels like. The rains have been minimal yes, but oh boy has the past month proven to be a hard hit one for this land and this country. First it was 215 unmarked graves in Kamloops. Then it was over 750 in Cowessess First Nation in southeast Saskatchewan. These numbers are startling. More will be found. This is only the beginning.

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On Thursday, May 27th it was reported by the CBC that 215 bodies of young children were found under a former residential school in Kamloops, BC. Some were as young as the age of three.

This news is tragic, heartbreaking and shameful.

As a Canadian, one with a small amount of Cree blood running through my veins, what this country did to the parents and families of these First Nations children is absolutely appalling. Separating them in an effort to cleanse the “Indian” within them is a horrendous black mark on our history as a country full stop. The very…

This past Tuesday, DoorDash announced they were implementing three new pricing tiers for restaurants. I have plenty to say on this matter. Here’s the press release.

From Tech Crunch:

DoorDash now offers three plans: DoorDash Basic, where restaurants only pay a 15% commission on deliveries, which shifts “a higher portion of the delivery cost to the customer” and supports a smaller delivery area; DoorDash Plus, where restaurants pay 25% to be part of DoorDash’s DashPass subscription program and get increased visibility in the DoorDash app; and DoorDash Premier, where restaurants pay 30% in exchange for the lowest customer fees, the…

Audio, Audio, Audio.

Oh boy has this sphere seen plenty of action of late. In the last year, look at what has transpired.

• Spotify has spent millions as it’s looked to dominate the music and podcast game. In early 2020 they bought Bill Simmons media company, The Ringer, for $200 million. Then they signed Joe Rogan for $100 million. This doesn’t even count what they did before in buying Gimlet and Anchor. Spotify’s sole aim to is to be the Netflix of audio. They’re on their way.
• Clubhouse, the live audio app that caught the internet on fire a few…